Katydid ear

This is a blip that I have been meaning to do for a long time and makes a good follow-up to yesterday’s blip. This is a macro of the katydid’s ears, located just below his knee joint. Similar to human hearing in that it is a vibrating drum skin, called the timpani.

All bugs that can make noise can obviously hear it, otherwise there would be no point. Grass hoppers and locusts have hearing in their abdomens, crickets and katydids, in their knee caps – isn’t nature wonderful, so inventive.

Dave